See how immigrants had to play "race roulette" with a biased court system due to the Alien Naturalization Act of 1790, which set the standard for citizenship in America and remained law for 175 years.

"The Naturalization Act of 1790, going back to the roots of the founding of the republic, stated that only free whites could naturalize. The 14th Amendment after the Civil War gave citizenship to free ...

The Naturalization Act of 1790 provided that only free white persons could become naturalized U.S. citizens. Although the Naturalization Act of 1870 extended eligibility to persons of African ...

THE granting of patents in the United States was provided for in the Constitution, and on April 10, 1790, Congress specified how patents were to be issued. It was, however, not until an act of ...

Rev. Torli H. Krua, a distinguished Liberian human rights activist and advocate for social justice, is set to deliver the Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Address under the theme “Unfinished Business.” ...

From his positivist standpoint, John Austin (1790 – 1859) defined a right as a legally enforceable ... regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human ...

The 4:1 majority ruling by a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India, in October 2024, that upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 is significant.

USA TODAY goes to Wyoming's Wind River Reservation to hear the challenges and the pride of being Indigenous in America.

President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to dust off a series of centuries-old laws and legal theories to drive his ...